[Coco] CoCoSDC Questions...

[Darren A]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com
> wrote:

> I figured that would be the answer to question 1.
>
> Darren? (you around and can you answer number 2?
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >> On Jul 15, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Steve Batson via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if there is info on the CoCoSDC on the following?
> >>
> >> 1) Can the disk image files (.DSK) be accessed from the PC without
> loading up an emulator or transfer program to retrieve or store in the
> image?
> >
> > As far as I know, you’ll need to use a CoCo .dsk utility.
> >
> >
> >> 2) Can the CoCo move files between the disk images and the file system
> on the SD card?
> >
>


No. The SDC firmware has no knowledge of the file systems used by the CoCo
(RSDOS and RBF).  In LBA mode it simply accepts requests to transfer
fixed-size blocks of 256 bytes between the CoCo and a file on the SD card.

- Darren